The Basics of Backgammon Strategies – Part Two
Posted in Backgammon on 10/20/2021 09:25 am by Madisyn
As we dicussed in the last article, Backgammon is a casino game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your pieces carefully around the game board to your home board while at the same time your opponent shifts their checkers toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces heading in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the requirement for particular strategies at specific instances. Here are the last 2 Backgammon plans to finish off your game.
The Priming Game Tactic
If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely block any movement of the opposing player by assembling a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s checkers will either get hit, or result a bad position if he at all tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anywhere between point 2 and point 11 in your game board. After you’ve successfully assembled the prime to block the activity of your competitor, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you shift your pieces and roll the dice yet again. You will be a winner for sure.
The Back Game Strategy
The aims of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game plan are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions with hope to boost your chances of succeeding, but the Back Game strategy uses different tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often employed when you are far behind your opponent. To participate in Backgammon with this technique, you need to hold 2 or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This technique is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.